Operation Ganga: AirAsia's flight with 170 Indian evacuees from Ukraine on board lands in Delhi
Mumbai, March 5:
Amid the Russia-Ukraine war, an AirAsia India evacuation flight from Suceava in Romania with 170 Indian evacuees from Ukraine on board landed in Delhi early Saturday morning. Under Operation Ganga, this was the first such flight operated by the Bengaluru-based budget carrier.
An AirAsia India flight from Sauceva in Romania via Dubai landed at the Delhi Airport at 4 am on Saturday morning with 170 Indian evacuees from Ukraine. The evacuees were received by Minister of State for External Affairs V Muraleedharan.
AirAsia India aircraft, an Airbus A320Neo, departed from Delhi at 8.30 am on Friday for its destination via Dubai and departed from Suceava for Delhi at 6.45 pm (local time). The airline is planning to operate a few more evacuation flights amid the Russia-Ukraine crisis.
Also read | India logs 5,921 fresh Covid-19 cases; daily positivity rate 0.63% Under Operation Ganga, India has been evacuating its citizens through special flights from Ukraine's western neighbours such as Romania, Hungary, Slovakia and Poland as the Ukrainian airspace has been shut since February 24. Earlier, the IAF on Saturday brought back 629 evacuated Indian nationals from Ukraine's neighbouring countries Romania, Slovakia and Poland as part of the ongoing Operation Ganga. "Three C-17 heavy-lift transport aircraft of the IAF, which had taken off from Hindan Airbase on Friday, landed back to the base on Saturday morning with the evacuated Indians," said the official release. "They had carried 16.5 tonnes of relief material on the outbound journey," IAF Tweeted.
So far, the IAF has flown 10 flights to bring back 2,056 passengers while taking 26 tonnes of relief load to these three countries.
-PTC News 
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